Jay Morse (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

16Mo Obl. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd ptg. 223pp. Pink boards, unclipped jacket. Text and artwork is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are secure, textblock is square with pointed corners. Does not contain the trading cards the book was released with. Slight overall book shelf/timewear, boardwear, adhesive residue on inside back; moderate jacketwear, jacket edge and cornerwear.

Hardcover. Condition: Gut. 177 S.; Ill. Ex.-Libr., Good condition. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 595.

Cloth. Condition: Fine Condition. 312 pages. Hardcover. Text in English. Minor soiling to the white boards, with a touch of shelf wear to the bottom edge, otherwise fine. Illustrated endpapers. 294 illustrations, 252 in color. Bound in illustrated paper covered boards with black cloth spine and issued without a dustjackert. Foreword by Doreen Bolger, John R. Lane, and Steven Nash. Includes acknowledgments, checklist, references and bibliography, photography and copyright credits, and index. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Dallas Museum of Art with the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas TX January 21-April 29, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA June 9-September 16, 2007, and The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD October 28, 2007-February 3, 2008. Book.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. 1, no. 6. Pulp magazine. Short lived (6 issue) pulp of which this is the final issue. Edited by Robert O. Erisman. Cover art is uncredited. Includes "Blockbusters for Berlin" (novelette) by Norman A. Daniels; "When a fighting Yank Gets Silver Wings" (novelette) by Lieut. Jay D. Blaufox; "Make Every Bomb Count' (novelette) by Allan K. Echols; "Cockpit Cowboy" (novelette) by David Brandt; "The Black Ace" by James O. Godwin; "Jammed Gun Jinx" by Jerry Drake; "Crash-Land It, Coward!" by Roger Hoyt; "Wings of Hate" by Wayne Shipley; "Sky Terror" by Everett Meiklejohn; "Flying Workhorse" by Morse Chandler. Illustrated by George Dunsford Klein and D. Gantz. Tear p 18; tanning; standard wear and tear to wraps with mild stains and small losses; bane on front in pencil. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. Vol. 1, no. 1. Pulp magazine. Short lived (6 issue) pulp. Edited by Robert O. Erisman. Cover art by Saunders for "Yanks, Give Them Hell!" (novelette) by Allan K. Echols. Includes "Give the Kid an Airacobra!" (long novelette) by Omar Gwinn; "Coward in the Cockpit" (long novelette) by Arthur J. Burks; "Bewar the Dive-Bomber Brigade!" (long novelette) by John J. Rand; "Tracer Terror" (novelette) by Charles W. Harbaugh; "Wings of Hate" by Sgt. H. C. Brokmeyer; "Give Us Air Support" by Morse Chandler; "Air-Fighting Fool" by John Wallace; "The Flying Tigers" by Lieut. Jay D. Blaufox; "Blue-Devil of the Skys" by David Brandt. Illustrated by Stanley A. Drake, H. W. Kiemle, Klein, and others. 2" tear at mid-front foredge has been tape emnded on inside; simnilar 1" tear at same on rear, unmended; standard creasing and short tears at overlaps; creasing; dealer's marks in pencil on cover. Book.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Half mottled cloth and leather boards; 10 x 13 inches; approximately 200 pages, nearly bursting with photographs and ephemera relating to student life at turn-of-the-century Yale. Compiled by a Mr. Jay Morse Pickands (1890-1913), whose family was prominent in the industrial and commercial life of Cleveland, Ohio. (His father, Col. James Pickands, co-founded Pickands, Mather, and Co., Iron Ore, Pig Iron, and Coal.) While at Yale, Jay Pickands was affiliated with Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and seemed an active participant in many sporting events, theater events, and possibly a secret society (Scroll and Key). This unique tome manages to amass the commonplace and the surprising though significantly more of the latter. It begins with all the trappings of Freshman life (a student handbook, list of rules, course offerings, exam schedules, school songs, telegrams, bills, invitations to debates), then quickly gives way to sports (football, swimming, baseball and we know that young Mr. Pickands reserved two seats to the Ladies' Bicycle Race), social clubs (and their politics), a fair amount of hedonism (present as a preserved wine cork, bottle cap, and cigar butt), and The Theater. Collects numerous menus, ticket stubs, announcements, and play programs from Alpha Delta Phi and H. Boyah, as well as a number of newspaper clippings relevant to Yale sports and social events. Interestingly, a number of these newspaper clippings address the abolishment of Sophomore Societies, including one about a poor student being blackballed (supposedly as a display of that society's power), and another about two prominent students who refused to join Skull and Bones. Along with this batch of newspaper clippings are four issues of "The Horoscope," concerned wholly with Yale's Secret Societies. Another major presence in Pickand's scrapbook is that of the theater, with announcements and invitations from the Glee and Banjo Club, and, more prominently, The H. Boyah Minstrels, present not just as ticket stubs and announcements, but as full programs and b/w photographs, both individual and group portraits, showing the entire troupe gathered together in drag, black face, or a combination thereof. Pickands provides very little text or explanation for the items he's collected, though the personal does weave its way into this "narrative" of Yale: Pickands' brother's wedding announcement is amongst the newspaper clippings, as is a short article recording the sighting of "the first horseless rig in Negaunee," which belonged to Harry Pickands. (And it should be noted that Negaunee did have one other technically horseless rig, which was powered by mule.) There is a lock of baby hair. There are pictures of the family dog. He includes a few hastily scrawled notes from his roommate, asking "Dear Pick" to please wake him up if he sleeps too long. And, finally, amongst Pickands' calling cards and dance cards, you will find the name of Alice Reynolds, who would become his wife. A rich volume. Lacking backstrip; boards a bit soiled; a little waviness from what might've once been dampstain.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 379BCE - With the help of Sparta's army, three wealthy men murder their way to power in Thebes. Now Alexis doesn't know whether his father is alive or dead. For three years Alexis has lived in the shadows, hiding his identity, hoping to learn of his father's fate. His own life is safe only because he is a slave and a talented scribe. But Alexis wants more than safety. He wants freedom and someone will have to die for him to get it. When chaos erupts, Alexis' life is tangled with the family of the city's ruthless leader. He must choose where his loyalties lie and be ready to defend them. It's the choice between the blade and the chain. Blade and Chain is a rich portrait of life in ancient Greece after the Peloponnesian War. It is the story of a boy's coming of age amidst the political and military conflicts that allowed Thebes to become the most powerful city-state of its time. We follow Alexis' story as true historical events rage around him, threatening to crush everyone he cares for. This is the ancient world as few know it. Citizens rely on slaves to do their work and to allow them to devote time to making war upon neighboring city-states. Among the Greeks some masters use beatings, branding, and mutilation to keep their human property under control. But slaves with talent can live well, and some are treated as members of their masters' families. The lives of women are even more deeply hidden--in a tightly-defined existence that begins and ends in the shadows. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

None. Condition: None. Folio album ca. 30,4x22,5 cm (12 x 8 ¾ in). 23 paper album leaves (six blank). With 71 original gelatin silver photographs (including six loose) from ca. 12,8x17,7 cm (5x7 in) to ca. 4,7x6,8 cm. Most photos with English captions on the mounts, in negatives, or on verso; with ten real photo postcards ca. 8,6x13,8 cm (3 ¼ x 5 ½ in), most by John E. Thwaites, photographer of Alaska; with ca. ten pieces of printed ephemera, including tickets and dinner saloon checks. Period black cloth album fastened with a string; gilt-lettered title "Book of Clippings" on the front cover. Edges worn, about ten photos partially detached, but otherwise a very good album with strong, interesting photos. Historically interesting collection of original photographs and printed postcards taken and collected by Jay C. Morse (ca. 1873-1954), a family member of telegraph inventor Samuel Morse (ca. 1791-1872, mostly during a voyage from Seattle to Alaska in the summer of 1929. Jay and his wife, Nellie W. Morse (ca. 1873), departed Seattle aboard the SS Queen on August 22 for a five-day journey, stopping at Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, and Skagway. Jay C. Morse was a long-time Oregon telegraph operator and grandnephew of Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph and Morse code. He was born in LaMotte, Iowa, and came to Portland in 1911. Beginning his career as a telegraph operator at sixteen, Morse was employed by the Oregon Washington Railroad and Navigation Company and later by the Union Pacific Railroad. He was also a member of the Morse Telegraph Club and Albert Pike Masonic Lodge No. 162. The album contains eighty-one well-preserved photographs and real photo postcards with most images documenting the Alaska voyage. About ten excellent photos of Ketchikan show general views of the waterfront, Ketchikan Creek, and a cityscape with clearly visible signs "US Cable Landing" and "Northland Transportation Company." Seven photographs from Wrangell capture the waterfront (including the steamer Yukon), Indigenous girls walking along the harbor, and a classical Raven Totem. Especially interesting are two early street views with taxis parked along the sidewalks and signs for "Alaska Café" and "Walter C. Waters (authority on antiquities)." Five photographs from Petersburg focus on harbor scenes, with fishing boats and steamers alongside buildings lining the waterfront. Interesting scenes from Juneau include landscapes (Auk Lake, Mendenhall Glacier), the harbor, and a street view with visible "Kodaks" and "Studio Portraits" advertisements. The collection also contains about eight photographs taken in Skagway, depicting the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad, Skagway Canyon, and the International Boundary sign. Especially important is a view along Broadway toward the mountains, with railway tracks in the foreground and a swastika symbol in the background (used prior to its appropriation by the Nazi Party as a sign of hospitality among Indigenous peoples of the Americas). The Alaska series concludes with several photographs from Sitka, showing Lovers Lane, Mount Verstovia, and the waterfront. The album also includes about twenty original photographs apparently taken and compiled during another journey from Field, British Columbia, to Toronto, Ontario. Identified views include the Mount Stephen Hotel in Field, a train locomotive, the SS Canada of the Canada Steamship Lines, and Niagara Falls. The collection is supplemented with ca. ten pieces of printed ephemera, including a ticket for the SS Queen (Skagway-Seattle), a Pacific Steamship Company dining saloon check, a Canadian Pacific Railway ticket (Field-Toronto), a Canada Steamship Lines coupon for an excursion across Lake Ontario, and an International Railway Company pedestrian bridge ticket for crossing the U.S.-Canada border at Niagara. Overall, historically interesting collection of original gelatin silver photographs and printed postcards mostly taken and collected during a voyage from Seattle to Alaska, in the summer of 1929.